The beauty of “Eighth Grade” is that it’s highly specific and generational. It’s the first movie to capture, in a major way, the teenage experience of those who have only existed on this planet during ...

No one in their right mind wants to go back to eighth grade. The chances are you were a victim, and would prefer to have middle school wiped from your memory altogether. Or maybe you victimized others ...

If “Eighth Grade” is a great movie about adolescence, it’s also a great one about the almost boring ubiquity of technology. Kayla is immersed in screens and apps. There are full sequences of Kayla ...

One of the higher-profile movies to play at this year’s Phoenix Film Festival was Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham’s chronicle of a few days in the life of Kayla (Elsie Fisher), a middle school kid, as she ...

*In “Eighth Grade,” Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) is starting her last week of middle school, and graduation can’t come soon enough for her. After all, the lonely, 13 year-old has just been voted “Most ...

NEW YORK – Take it from Elsie Fisher: The movie "Eighth Grade" is a lot like the real thing. The young actress started shooting the film a week after graduating from middle school, making the ups and ...

Shane is a Movie Features Writer for Collider. He developed a strong passion for film and writing at an early age, and went on to study Writing, Communication, and Political Science at Siena College.

The new coming-of-age movie “Eighth Grade” falls somewhere between must-see and watch-between-your-fingers. The former is because it’s that good and that authentic. The latter is because its reality ...